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We are taking our daughter on her first official college visit this
April. As a true geocaching family does, we looked to see what we
could add to our trip.... a couple new states, a new country, the
Stash Plaque. Obviously, being so close to Seattle we have to make
a trip to Mecca Geocaching HQ. We have read up on the
tour a little bit and it looks really cool to see the nuts and
bolts behind the hobby we all play. There is even a huge
geocache capable of holding a bunch of trackables inside the
building. Immediately our thoughts went to hosting another Super
Quick Travel Bug Event before we leave to take any trackables that
want to go to HQ. Also being us, we have planned a few other event
to meet up with local cachers as we explore the …

To log your geocache find online, all that you are required to do
is put something in that little box. It could be a simple “I found
it.”… or what you are likely to se a lot: TFTC. The acronym
TFTC stands for Thanks For The Cache. I know its not brain surgery
but it can be confusing to new cachers the first time they see
it.

TFTCTNLNSL?

This is absolutely not what you should write for a log
and I’ll explain why. Think back to when you were in high school
and you got your yearbook. There was always that one idiot that
like to write between the pages. “I’m the first to sign your
crack.” It seemed funny at the time but years later when he died in
a horrific floor waxing incident and the last communication from
his was that lame line – a little…

If you have been around geocaching for a while you have no doubt
heard the idea of a mentor program tossed out. This discussion
usually comes about after a new cacher comes on the scene and makes
a few mistakes. Nowadays with more and more people being introduced
to geocaching through the intro app on their smartphones this seems
to come up more frequently. It’s understandable. No, it really is.
Does the intro app tell you not to hide near schools? Does the
intro app tell you that your log should be waterproof? Even if it
does, who reads instructions on a game for the phone?

I know that when we started we made mistakes, a bunch of mistakes
and we had people to talk to. We got advice in the field and at
events. Eventually, we were lucky enou…

We have all seen geocaching SWAG and various personalized
items. They can take many forms from handmade tags to custom
pens. There is really no limit to the SWAG you can get
associated with your team name. The first time we had something
made with our team name on it was when we designed a stamp. That
sounds impressive but really its not.

[1]We used the same logo that our brother made before for our
profile. We went online and found a site that would make us some
custom stamps. I don’t remember how much it cost but I do know it
was seriously cheap. Pretty sure we had a coupon. They were so
cheap that we bought 10. Since we bought something they gave us a
free box of business cards. Did we need business cards? Of
course not but they were fre…

I think as geocachers we all want to improve every aspect of our
game. One of those aspects that we tend to neglect is our public
profile page on Geocaching.com. Most of the cachers’
profiles that I’ve come across either have posted stats from
a third-party application or maybe a couple pictures and that’s the
extent of their profile page

this has always seemed odd to me. In
a high-tech adventure game – It’s essentially a webpage
that many of us are underutilizing or even leaving blank.

In the past I have added some stats that I got from project-GC.com
and mygeocachingprofile.com both of which just left it looking kind
of cluttered and junky.

I decided recently that I was going to start from scratch with the
whole profile page. I searched …

Periscope, for those of you who have yet to give in to your
voyeuristic urges, is a platform for broadcasting anything you want
live on the internet. Their official tagline is “Explore the world
through someone else’s eyes.” Put simply – you can broadcast from
anywhere you have a signal and people can interact by making
comments. So, how can we or should we incorporate this into
geocaching?

There are already a couple of people using
the #geocaching tag. Joshua the Geocaching
Vlogger, HeadHardHat, and the guys from the UK
Geocaching Podcast are some of the early adopters. My thought
is that it is a neat platform to have some interaction with
geocachers all over the world while they are out in the field.

If you have been geocaching for any amount of time you have come
across a multi cache, we all have. This is where our commonality
ends. Cachers tend to fall into one of three categories after that.
You either love, hate or just don't care about them. We have gone
through a few stages in our house. At first, we were intrigued by
the idea of a multi stage adventure. Then we tried to find a few
and we got stuck a stage or two in. You probably know the
frustration of not being able to finish a geocache you have
started. Its that I'm going to murder kittens level frustration
that makes you instantly glad you don't control nuclear
weapons.

Probably obvious but we laid off multicaches for a long time. When
only started doing them again for a nearb…

We love all types of geocaching as a family but there is one
category of geocaches that I get really excited about - 5/5s.
Technically this category encompasses a wide variety of caches,
especially considering the currently frozen category of Challenge
caches. The ones I'm speaking of though are true 5 difficulty and 5
terrain caches. I know this is subjective and I am by no means an
expert but... after several months of recovering from a couple
major surgeries, I'm more excited than ever to engage in a true
geocaching adventure. I have my eyes set on a couple of them. I
need these now more than ever. Unfortunately I'm still healing and
some of them are outside of my state. That's ok. that just means I
have more time to plan and sucker co…

I am going to go out on a limb and make my predictions for what I
think we will see in the world of geocaching for 2016. Hopefully in
about 366 days from now (it’s a leap year) I will have some of
these right. Either that or I will be able to laugh uproariously at
my complete ineptitude. These predictions are what I see happening
in the sport obsession game of geocaching and do not
necessarily have anything to do with my plans for caching in
2016.

Challenges – will be back after the moratorium with their
own icon and will require some type of automated checker like the
one being used by project-gc currently.

USA’s first GIGA – will occur in Denver this summer. I
am allowing my personal hopes to cloud this one but that’s OK
because this is my…

Hello all, I found this great website where you can make a FREE
geocaching trackable.The only downside is that it will not be a
trackable on geocaching.com. How it worksis it gives you a number
through there website, you print it out and attach it to somthing
then release it in to the wild. Other geocachers are able to track
it at the same website. Sign up at http://www.geotrackable.org.